Duan Tianming, who was hiding in the distance and watching, had a solemn expression on his face.
This buried corpse was most likely the scholar from Magou Town who wanted to seek justice for the deceased.
In the Lantian County government office, the daughter-in-law who wanted to sue the county magistrate ended up sending herself into a pit in the river beach. It was really sad.
"Commander Duan, should we go up now and capture them all?" A school lieutenant looked at the movements of several people in the distance, then looked at the carriage parked nearby, and asked in a low voice.
"Going out now will allow Magistrate Lantian to be completely brought to justice. However, if Magistrate Lantian is dealt with so easily, the conspiracy hidden behind this matter will never be traced. The purpose of our trip is to target Ma Yunshan.
The possibility leaves him no room for maneuver. I feel that killing people and silencing them is just their first step, and there should be a series of bigger things to do later." Duan Tianming said softly.
"Then we just watch like this?"
"Listen to what they say first. It's impossible for these people to just work and not talk." Xiao Chen ordered in a low voice.
The Bahe river beach is different from ordinary land. There are mostly sand and stones in the river beach, and the shovel digs into the stones, making a clanking sound.
"Keep your voice down, are you afraid that others won't hear?" The driver looked around from time to time, very dissatisfied with the actions of several people.
"There are a lot of rocks down there, and we don't want to make any noise. Why do you have to bury the body on the river beach?" A man muttered quietly while working.
"Go back and ask the master why the body was buried in the river beach. Just work, how can there be so much talk?" It was obvious that these people were very familiar with each other, and the coachman was vaguely their superior.
"Do you even need to ask? When digging a hole in other places, a pile of new soil will inevitably attract other people's attention. In this river beach, if someone sprinkles some water on it after burying it, no one will be able to tell the traces here."
"I see, the master is thinking that if there is a flash flood in the river beach, the silt and river sand coming out of the valley will make it more and more difficult to find this place. Even if something happens in the future, and you want to find the burial place, I am afraid it will be because of the river beach.
Change but cannot find it." Another person whispered.
Seeing a few people still talking in low voices, the coachman couldn't help but get angry: "Why are you so smart, you can guess the master's thoughts? Be faster, finish the work earlier, and we will go back earlier. It's late at night, and there is a corpse lying next to you. You are really worried.
Aren’t you hairy at all?”
"Fa Mao, why are you hairy? Isn't it perfect? People like us who grew up together, what do we have to be afraid of? That's good. I didn't expect that I would bury him with my own hands in the end." A man digging a hole said in a low voice.
Hearing this, Duan Tianming's heart suddenly became clear.
These people actually knew the deceased? And they grew up together. So, these people are also from Magou Town. Could it be that the master they mentioned was Ma Yunshan's younger brother Malianshan? Together with the county magistrate, he killed the man who insisted on appealing.
This down-and-out scholar named Wanquan?
No wonder I waited all day, but the county government office was also quiet, and there was no movement of the case being brought to court. It turned out that the person who complained had already been killed.
But, there was more than one person coming together. What about the others? They wouldn’t just watch Wan Quan being killed and remain indifferent, right?
Or were they also involved in the killing?
Thinking of this, Duan Tianming shook his head gently.
It is absolutely impossible for them to participate in the killing. Moreover, they came to the county government together with the purpose of seeking justice for the deceased. They had the same starting point. They had no reason to kill Wan Quan.
In other words, they were all killed and their bodies were buried separately?
The more he thought about it, the more confused his mind became. Duan Tianming even had the urge to rush up and catch these people and ask them what happened.
"Oh, it would be great if Xiao Chen was here now. I'm really a little nervous when encountering this kind of thing."
Duan Tianming thought secretly in his heart.
Several people in the river beach, after working hard for a while, finally dug the hole to a satisfactory level.
"That's enough, you guys can lend a hand and carry the body down and bury it." The driver, who had been looking around, whispered to everyone.
Under the cover of darkness, several people lifted the body from the carriage, arrived at the dug pit, and threw it in with a "plop".
"Zhang Xi's father hasn't been buried yet, so it would be best if he was buried first." A man smiled bitterly, waved the shovel in his hand, and began to fill the pit with soil.
"This piece of paper can be regarded as a fortune for his father's death this time. The master compensated him with one hundred taels of silver, which was enough for him to squander it for a while." Someone murmured in a low voice.
"Don't the people who accompanied him also have ten taels of silver each?"
"No, there are no small gains. It's just that it's so perfect, but I don't know how to adapt it, and it's finally buried in the soil. Alas."
"What are you talking about? We can discuss this kind of thing casually? When you go back, shut your mouth and don't talk about it everywhere. If I let the master know about it and want to bury you, it will be too late to regret it by then. ." The coachman scolded everyone.
"I know, I know. It's just a few of us here, let's express our emotions. How can we dare to talk like this outside in the future? We are all seniors and subordinates. Who thinks that his life is long?"
"It's good to know. Hurry up and fill in the soil. Master is waiting for news from us."
"Yeah, yeah, everybody, hurry up with your shovels, fill up the soil as soon as possible, and go back as soon as possible."
Duan Tianming, who was in the distance, finally understood. The deceased's son and others had their mouths blocked with money. Only this down-and-out scholar named Wanquan became the wronged soul in this case.
"Observe the surrounding terrain and remember the burial location. When you come back to handle the case, don't miss this body." Duan Tianming ordered in a low voice.
"Remember, we remember everything around us very clearly." The captain next to him replied.
In a short time, the pit in the river was filled. A few people walked to the river, filled a bucket of water with the wooden barrels prepared in advance, and sprinkled it around the pit, making the pit look like the surrounding areas. They melted together, just packed up their things, and got into the carriage together.
Duan Tianming greeted the two captains and shrank back into the crop field behind him. He didn't step out again until the carriage passed by the path in front of him.
"Should we continue tracking?"
"We have to find out where this group of people live. In future cases, these people will be witnesses." Duan Tianming whispered, taking the lead to follow the carriage.
On the way back to the city, perhaps there was no urgent business, so the carriage walked slowly and leisurely.
Everyone in the carriage was either afraid of death or tired from work. No one continued to talk, and everyone sat quietly in the carriage.
Faced with the other party's slow and quiet pace, Duan Tianming had to be even more cautious and follow suit.
The carriage stopped taking detours and walked straight into Lantian County East Street. After many twists and turns, it entered a courtyard that looked quite large.
After the carriage entered the yard and the gate was closed, Duan Tianming tiptoed to the gate.
Above the gate, there is a wooden plaque hanging, which reads: Ma's Jade Workshop.
"It turns out he is really a servant of Malian Shan." A captain looked at the plaque and whispered.
"So far in this matter, it can be concluded that Malianshan and the magistrate of Lantian County worked together to kill Wanquan and silence him. Record the matter in detail and report it back to the Ministry of Punishment so that the Ministry of Punishment can make a solid case." Duan Tianming looked at a school captain next to him.
"Yes." The captain responded.
"If I'm not wrong, their next step is to circle the river and start looking for jadeite stones in it." Duan Tianming whispered as he looked at the words "jade workshop" on the wooden plaque.
"Should we stop it?"
"We must stop them. However, what is the more appropriate reason to stop them?" Duan Tianming frowned slightly.
"Commander Duan, tell me, what will they do if we act as a river force and compete with them for this river?" A captain seemed to have remembered something, lowered his voice, and looked at Duan Tianming beside him.
"The power of the rivers and lakes? If they enclose the river in the name of the government, the power of the rivers and lakes may not be able to compete head-on. What do you mean?" Duan Tianming was a little confused for a moment.
"The government circled the river, so we pretended to be sabotaging it secretly. We kept our faces covered anyway, and the government officials just dealt with them casually. In this case, would Ma Lianshan report it to his brother Ma Yunshan, who is also the commander of the Jinyiwei, and seek asylum?
?”
Duan Tianming understood instantly and his face was full of joy: "What do you mean, you want to tempt Jin Yiwei to take action and drag Ma Yunshan and Jin Yiwei down together?!"
